Vacances romaines
Aug 26, 1953Les tendres amours, le temps d'une journée, d'une princesse fugueuse et d'un séduisant journaliste américain, dans la Ville éternelle, Rome.
Romance
Hartley Power
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Jury's Evidence
Jan 01, 1936'Foreman of Old Bailey jury refuses to accept circumstantial evidence and helps solve murder case.' (British Film Catalogue)
Au cœur de la nuit
Sep 09, 1945Les invités d'un tranquille cottage content chacun une histoire extraordinaire qu'ils ont vécue. Le premier récit est celui d'un coureur automobile qui échappe de peu à la mort. La deuxième histoire est celle d'une jeune fille rencontrant le fantôme d'un petit garçon assassiné dans un manoir. Et le troisième récit raconte comment un homme pourtant pondéré est conduit à la folie meurtrière.
Horror
Where There's a Will
Aug 10, 1936Will Hay plays the pennyless, bungling solicitor Benjamin Stubbins, who arrives at his office to find his insolent office boy (Graham Moffatt) with his feet up on the desk, reading a wild west magazine, which Hay confiscates so that he can read it later. Stubbins later takes a job from a group of Americans who claim they want him to track down some ancestors of theirs in Scotland. In reality however they want to use his office so they can rob a safe in the room immediately below his office. Stubbins takes the job (which is designed to keep him out of the office). In the end Stubbins realises his mistake and at a Christmas Eve fancy dress party he informs a group of carol singing policeman about the Americans nefarious activities
Comedy
Atlantic Ferry
Sep 06, 1941The MacIver brothers (Michael Redgrave, Griffith Jones) build the first ship to cross the Atlantic by steam power alone.
Romance
Murder Will Out
Aug 13, 1939Paul and Pamela Raymond become immersed in intrigue after receiving a costly jade. As they look for assistance in saving their skins, all their leads disappear, including the man who had given them the jade.
Drama
A Window in London
Jun 15, 1940A man witnesses a murder that isn't a murder, only to get involved with the magician and his wife who created the illusion. The insanely jealous magician husband eventually kills his wife, making for complications in life of unhappily married man who is now involved more than he ever thought he would be.
Thriller
The Man from Morocco
Apr 17, 1945With the ending of the Spanish Civil War, a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France. But on reaching the frontier, the band is disarmed, and all are detained as political prisoners. Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans. However, one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies.
Action
Yes, Mr. Brown
May 25, 1933The manager of a foreign branch of an American toy company attempts to entertain his visiting American boss to obtain a partnership.
Music
The Camels Are Coming
Oct 08, 1934A British officer in the Camel Corps in Egypt goes undercover to investigate a gang of drug smugglers. He enlists the aid of a female pilot to help break up the gang.
Adventure
Road House
Nov 29, 1934Road House is a 1934 British comedy crime film directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Violet Loraine, Gordon Harker and Aileen Marson.
Crime
Evergreen
Apr 01, 1934Harriet Green, a beloved and radiant music hall star of the Edwardian era, mysteriously disappears on the eve of her wedding. Years later, she reappears on the stage as young looking and beautiful as ever.
Comedy
Just Smith
Sep 13, 1933A pair of con men in Monte Carlo attach themselves to a nouveau rich American snob with a weakness for titles...
Comedy
L'Homme au million
Jan 07, 1954Fraîchement arrivé à Londres et sans un sou après s'être fait dévaliser, Adams, un jeune Américain se demande comment survivre. Au moment où il se penche pour ramasser une brioche qu'un gamin vient de jeter, un majordome lui ouvre la porte d'une riche demeure. Deux vieux messieurs, les frères Monpelier, lui remettent une coupure unique d'un million de livres. Il peut l'utiliser pendant un mois. Et si au terme de ce delai, Adams la restitue intacte, sa fortune sera faite.
Comedy
The Armchair Detective
Jan 01, 1951The BBC armchair detective clears a nightclub singer of suspicion of the murder of her boss.
Mystery
Alibi
Aug 10, 1942
Aunt Sally
Jun 13, 1934An ambitious girl who wants to be a cabaret star poses as "Zaza", a French chanteuse, to get a job in a prestigious nightclub. Unfortunately, she finds herself in the middle of a dispute between Mike Kelly, the club's Chicago-born owner, and a group of American gangsters bent on taking over the club. To put pressure on Kelly, the gangsters kidnap "Zaza".
Comedy
Living Dangerously
Mar 08, 1936The dramatic story of a normal, intelligent man of good principles driven to contemplate thoughts of murder.
Drama
Return to Yesterday
Mar 09, 1940Robert Maine is torn between returning to the glamour of Hollywood and working with a small theatre company in England.
Comedy
Down River
May 08, 1931
Le Chemin des étoiles
Jun 16, 1945En Grande-Bretagne, en 1942, le quotidien d'une escadrille anglo-américaine cantonnée à l'arrière, à travers les destins de quelques pilotes et de leurs compagnes.
Drama
To Dorothy, a Son
Oct 31, 1954Under a complicated bequest from her uncle, Myrtle stands to inherit $2,000,000 if her ex-husband doesn't have any male heirs on the way, else he gets the cash. She journies from New York to England, and finally tracks him down with his heavily pregnant new wife. Should she try and woo him back or challenge the legality of the new marriage?
Comedy
The Return of the Frog
Nov 24, 1938
The Net
Feb 09, 1953A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project.
Science Fiction
Une île au soleil
Jun 12, 1957Sous l'oeil d'un gouverneur débonnaire, on observe une société séparée entre les Blancs, bouffi de petites jalousies mesquines et de grands secrets inavouables, et les Noirs, exploités par de riches planteurs. Une nouvelle Constitution vient d'être promulguée et des élections s'annoncent, auxquelles David Boyer, jeune syndicaliste Noir, envisage de se présenter en opposition à Maxwell Fleury, fleuron des planteurs.
Drama
Friday the Thirteenth
Nov 01, 1933It is pouring with rain at one minute to midnight on Friday the thirteenth, and the driver of a London bus is peering through his blurred windscreen as his vehicle sails down an empty road. Suddenly, lightning strikes, and a vast crane above topples into the path of the oncoming bus... Then Big Ben begins to wind backwards. Time recedes. And we discover the lives of all the passengers and the events that brought them to that late-night bus journey, from the con-man with a hundred-pound cheque to the businessman's distraught and elderly wife. Time flows on, inevitably, to the crash -- and past it, as some live and some die.
Comedy
